Re: [orca-list] Finding the Desktop in Gnome 3?

[Henning Oschwald <listmail hoschwald de>]

On Mo, Mai 09 2011, Steve Holmes wrote:

> One question I have not been able to find the answer to here on this
> list nor another one I belong to, While using gnome 3 in fallback
> mode, I cannot access the desktop.  At this point, I can't tell if
> there is one at all or if we just can't access it from the keyboard
> anymore.

Yes, the desktop should still be there in fallback mode, although the
ctrl-alt-d shortcut has been removed by default for any of those famous
gnom-isch reasons. :-(

,----[ from the Metacity Git log ]
| commit fae70a610e5824c52853532951cbe85030aa4136
| Author: Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>
| Date:   Sun Mar 13 16:32:44 2011 -0400
| 
|     Disable 'Show desktop' keybinding by default
| 
|     The keybindings are shared with gnome-shell, and since the shell
|     no longer exposes minimization as a very visible feature, this
|     keybinding
|     has a dramatic and unexpected effect.
|     https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643609
`----

omg!

You can however manually re-enable the shortcut in the Gnome shortcut
settings.

cheers

  Henning